Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing” deals a lot with art and vision and how people view art, but he never talks about writing and I think there is a good reason behind that. The essay starts by telling how words cannot tell a scene like paintings can and I took that as Berger dismissing words as being inferior to painting in the way that they portray things. Also, Berger is an art critic and he specializes in paintings, which means he would know more about paintings and the history of paintings, then he would know of writing.

Writing and painting are similar but are still two very different forms of artwork. Writing is using language to tell a story and he

Over time painting and literature have changed because the times have changed. I think that is a big indicator that literature is a form of art. It is easy to see how literature can be taken as a piece of art because of the way that it can be so many different things without changing at all. A link can easily be made between paintings and literature in the way that they both can be interpreted in differently, they can tell a story, and they can give a look into the past or even the future. They can both be used for entertainment and for research. They are also very similar that it does take a little research to fully understand what each really means. Books contain many symbols as do paintings with references to different works. I would consider literature art for the simple fact that it is created by a person for other people to view and to spark thought. It is plain to see that books do this as much as painting and it takes just as much work by the author as it does the artist.

lp the reader to visualize the story without pictures, and painting is the pictures. To view a painting Berger says that you must know the artist and view the painting in context of when the painting was painted. To read a book there is not too much background information that is needed, where as the background information in paintings can change the whole way we look at it. If there is some background information needed to be known it is very easy for the author to work it into the text. In writing, a lot of things are told and the interpretation is not completely left up to the reader. All of the interpretation of a painting is left up to the viewer, which is a big reason why Berger wrote his essay.

Movies are not the only things that take away from the novel. In my opinion, paintings can take away from the novel because it shows one person’s opinions on the book. If the reader views the painting before the novel it is very likely that the reader will already have an opinion about the book based on the painting. It is better if a person does not come into a reading with a previous opinion becaus

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